Series 27847

These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Some of these photos are attached to glass and show heavy fading typically associated with light exposure. Because of the fragility and poor quality of these photos they should not be removed from the glass.

Scope and Content

The Division of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) provides professional standards and training, leadership, and certification for peace officers and dispatchers. This series contains photographs that document every graduating class that has finished POST training. Photos are taken of six graduating class each year.

Arrangement

Chronological by year, thereunder numerical by photo number.

Related Records

Correspondence from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 2296, contains records that document how the POST Academy is organized and how it functions, its pattern of action, its policies, procedures and achievements.

Publications from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 2297, contains pamphlets, reports, leaflets, file manuals, and other published or processed documents, whicy may feature information on administration, legal matters, fiscal and financial operations, law enforcement, crime, standards, and POST training.

Administrative records from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 2298, includes newspaper clippings, photographs, rosters, roll books, control sheets, and other administrative records created by the POST Academy.

Police training program administrative records from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 2304, contains publications, correspondence, and other records pertaining to the development of curricula, programs, and standards for peace officer training.

Minutes from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 10700, contains records created by a committee or conference, including advisory committees, relating to executive establishment, organization, membership, and policy.

Academy building plans from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 22806, contains drawings of the POST academy building pertaining to the roof view, exterior elevations, first floor and second floor.

Annual reports from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 23272, contains reports that document POST activities from the previous year with information pertaining to agency activities, agency staff, law enforcement, training, standards, justice system, legislation, and fiscal and financial operations.

Annual reports from the Department of Public Safety. Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST), Series 26063, contains reports that may provide additional information on the POST graduates who appear in these photographs.

Custody History

These photographs were temporarily transferred to the State Archives from POST on December 15, 2011. The State Archives digitized all photographs, and returned the original images to the POST office in January 2012.

Access Restrictions

This series is classified as Public.

Preferred Citation

Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.

Processing Note

This series was digitized by Archives staff in 2012. Final processing was completed in March 2014. The finding aid for this series was completed by Jim Kichas in March 2014.

Finding Aids

Indexes: Every photo has an affixed list naming each graduating officer who appears in the photo. Indexes: A name index is available online. View index.